Tag: environment

(Latest in my series of bee posts for Scientopia) The same day that I published my piece about bees and pesticides, the Pesticide Action Network released a report titled Honey Bees and Pesticides: State of the […]

One of the fun things I did this semester was arrange a meeting between our fall semester undergrads and an environmental consulting company manager. The idea was to give the students an idea of how […]

An update on this bill’s passage: U.S. House of Representatives approved the No Child Left Inside Act of 2008 September 19th. The bill received bi-partisan support and was approved by a vote of 294 to […]

An interesting story (and podcast!) in the news today: Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants. …As early as 1971, U.S. scientists began releasing gallflies […]

News From GM: Wagoner said GM is “undertaking a strategic review of the Hummer brand, to determine its fit with GM’s evolving product portfolio” in light of changing market conditions. “At this point, we are […]

A lot of people that aren’t aggie nerds like me have never heard of NRCS, or the conservation reserve programs. Until the New York Times covered them, anyway: Thousands of farmers are taking their fields […]

I meant to post this earlier in the week–it continues some themes covered here in the Bug Blog earlier. Old-Fashioned Play Builds Cognitive Skills “Chudacoff’s recently published history of child’s play argues that for most […]

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The insect educational program I run has a wish list for supplies we use regularly to care for our animals:
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Please consider buying the Bug Barn some cages or crayons! That lets me use the savings to hire more undergraduates for hands on training.